Brooks Cottages

BROOKS COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, PEARL STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1139574
Date first listed:
14-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:
Brooks Cottages
Statutory Address:
BROOKS COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, PEARL STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1139574
Date first listed:
14-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:
Brooks Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
BROOKS COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, PEARL STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BROOKS COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, PEARL STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Prestbury
National Grid Reference:
SJ 90126 77114

Details

SJ 97 NW PRESTBURY C.P. PEARL STREET (West Side)

6/199 Nos. 1 and 2 Brooks Cottages (formerly listed as Brooks Cottages)

14/4/1967

GV II

Formerly a farmhouse, now 2 cottages: dated 1686 with C20 alterations. Coursed squared buff sandstone rubble, Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge and 2 gable brick chimneys. 2-storey, 4-bay front. Left end bay has added gabled porch. To right in lower storey are 2 long rubble hood moulds, to left above a restored 5-light stone mullioned window and to right above a C20 door and casement. Above are 2, 3-light windows (one with restored mullions) with rubble hood moulds in barge-boarded half dormers. Central plaque reads "Rodger Brooks and Ellen his wife Erected his house in the 24 years of his life Ano Dom 1686."

Listing NGR: SJ9012677114

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Legacy System number:
58365
Legacy System:
LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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